![]() I don't know first hand, but I have heard that EVGA has the best customer support. Ty_ger07 Maybe its because I haven't warranty replaced anything ever, that makes customer service extremely low on my priority list. Boards are hit or miss, either get one that's great or one that gives you a headache. Seems like its true, different companies have different problems with their boards. Thanks guys for the reviews! Appreciate it. You can receive faulty hardware from any of the mfg. (more on CPU silicon lottery) A site that sells binned CPU's says, As of 2/22/17, the top 7% of tested 7700Ks were able to hit 5.2GHz or greater. ![]() How high you can overclock comes down to CPU silicon lottery. I think most of the Z270 mobo around$215-300 price tag overclock about the same for everyday use. Better onboard sound and audio software on motherboards around $200-230 price point Reinforced PCI-E and RAM slots Onboard RGB and/or RGB headers More version to choose from to meet a budget Better value for your money Does having more than 10 power phase make a difference on Z270 air/water cooled system, i doubt it. Few things i have noticed other mfg have that evga doesn't. They go all out on video cards but not motherboards. In my opinion, evga not putting as much effort as they could into producing motherboards. If you want a motherboard with all the latest features, you will have to look towards ASRock, ASUS ,GIGABYTE and MSI. It all depends on what features you care about. If you like spending a lot of your time playing with it, making it work, and trying to keep it working, EVGA motherboards are for you. I think of EVGA motherboards as the tinkerer's friend. Even though I have had a MSI motherboard fail, prior to it failing, I didn't have constant annoying issues with it which made me dread owning it. MSI and Asrock have done me pretty well since then. But if you buy the standard version which costs the same price as the competitor's, it is inferior. It seems like the people who buy the overly-expensive EVGA wanker version ("CLASSIFIED", etc.) of the board are the people who like the EVGA board or have tricked themselves into believing that they like it. I decided my experiences weren't just a fluke and decided that it is unlikely that i will buy another EVGA motherboard. ![]() To top it off, the EVGA X58 board tended to perform worse clock-for-clock compared to other brands' board of the same type. I tested the hardware in another brand motherboard. With it, once again I experienced inadequate cooling design concerns (had to zip tie fan to power MOSFET heatsink to keep MOSFET temps down below 100c), boot issues (I had to turn it off and on 2 or 3 times some times or even some times cycle the PSU power switch to get it to pass BIOS POST) and reliability issues (hangs, freezes, and randomly disappearing or reappearing system memory between one boot and the next boot). The X58 motherboard I purchased was just the standard price-competitive version. So, I still felt comfortable buying an EVGA X58 SLI motherboard. Like I said, I don't know if it is fair to fault EVGA in those instances since it was an NVIDIA reference motherboard with simply EVGA's logo on it. The second had annoying issues - such as poor power efficiency, an extremely hot running chipset, buzzing chipset fan - but worked for a few years before it failed. The first 780i failed (stopped booting and stopped detecting drives) within a week or two. The EVGA nForce 780i was technically an NVIDIA reference board and therefore I don't know if I can blame EVGA. The thought of 'EVGA motherboard' makes me think "meh". After those experiences, I haven't purchased an EVGA motherboard and don't see that changing any time soon. Both the EVGA motherboard models I have owned - two EVGA nForce 780i motherboards and one EVGA X58 motherboard - were plagued by annoying issues and were not that spectacular to own.
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